Brown and White Vol. 1 no. 30

              track athletics anyone who has entertained the thought that interest in our track athletics is on the wane should take a stroll down to the field during the latter part of a forenoon or in the middle of the afternoon he will see from five to ten men on the track training for sprints and long runs on any day when the weather will permit it there are two weeks more in which to train and the men evidently realize the shortness of the time for they are working hard if the judgment of our best athletes is to be relied upon we shall take nearly all the points in the lehigh-lafayette sports and the prospects are favor able that we will make a far bet ter showing than usual in the state sports which will be held at state college this year it seemed to be up-hill work at first but now our gymnasium director has finally aroused in the students something like his own athletic enthusiasm the track is being well repaired and with this increased enthusiasm which the men are showing the outlook is very bright state oratorical contest the executive committee of the pennsylvania inter-collegiate ora torical union which met at allen town last wednesday decided to hold the annual contest wednesday may 16 at 8 p m in the academy of music at auentown the date had previously been arranged for the 19th but was changed in order not to conflict with the state sports at state college the judges will probably be hon win ashman judge of the orphans court phila delphia ; judge harvey of allen town and eev w w barker of phillipsburg n j lehigh's representative will be merrill 94 who will take as h:'s subject " pickett's charge at gettysburg the alternate is warr 95 one reason for the selection of auentown as the place of contest was its nearness to le high and lafayette it is expected therefore that there will be large delegations of students from these two colleges the success of the union depends upon the interest manifested in it by the colleges and victory for lehigh will hinge largely on the support ■ given its representative saturday's games many teams on the diamond but they are mostly unsuccessful auentown 9 ; lehigh 2 saturday's game with the al lentown club of the state league was interesting and the best game our team has yet played the error column was helped along considerably by the decisions of the auentown umpire the most palpable fault of the lehigh team is the lifeless manner in which with one or two excep tions they piajr this we think is in part due to the attitude of the university to wards its team if the college men would realize that their ball team is by no means a poor one and would give it some encouragement perhaps the nine would exhibit more liveliness in its play jackson pitched a fair game and bowie's work in the last two,in nings was promising mcclung caught well and n>ne of the auentown team attempted to steal a base on him smith and thompson fielded prettily and beggs batted well lehigh made a run in the first after two men were out smith hit a double to left and scored on moran's excusable muff of petri kin's long fly our second and last run was made in the third peck bunted to the pitcher and beat the ball to first went to third on a wild throw and home on a wild pitch following is the summary allentown lehigh innings earned runs allen town 4 two-base hits sweeney mulvey smitb ;. three-base hits mulvey milligan home run mulvey sac rifice hits sweeney donaghtie petriken bases on balls auentown 5 lehigh 2 struck out auentown 1 lehigh 6 double plays jackson petriken and mcclung petriken and smith wild pitch treat time ih 45 in ; umpires kilroy of allen town johnson of lehigh the french translation of the second edition of the work on alternating currents by dr be dell and dr crehore is about to appear advance sheets nave al ready been received the work is published in france by georges carre paris from the translation of j berthon and is brought out in that perfect style which character izes french scientific works the german edition from the transla tion of a h bucherer will be published by julius springer of berlin — cornell sun pennington 5 ; lehigh 97 4 the freshman team left south bethlehem on the 10.58 train saturday morning to play the pennington seminary team at pen nington although the freshmen were badly in need of practice yet they had hopes of beating their well trained opponents and the outcome of the game showed that these hopes were well grounded,the score being but 5 to 4in favor of the school-boys the game throughout was close and interesting and it was not until the last half of the eighth inning that pennington scored the two runs which won them the game at the beginning of this inning the score stood 4 to 3 in favor of 97 fisher came first to bat and was thrown out at first base lukens made first on an error by baker stock struck out and hood was put out at first for pennington bird got a hit and stole second and third w grace got his base on balls and sheppard was put out at first bird scoring grace came home on a passed ball making the score 5 to 4 after this neither side scored meeting of the tennis club at the meeting of the tennis club last week it was determined that the courts should be put in first class order and the affair was put in the hands of the executive com mittee this work will make the club about 100 in debt but with the outstanding dues and those from the new members this amount can be made good afterwards the names of about a dozen men were read who were desirous of joining the club other business of a miscellaneous character having been transacted the meeting was adjourned the brown and white south bethlehem pa april 30 1894 no 30 vol i the 97 team was composed as follows : hugh p jones ss fisher 2b lukens if stock lb hood c eoelker 3b chasmar cf leh man rf the pennington team was composed of richter,2b baker ss townsend p bird c.,w grace cf shepparcl if wintzer lb e grace rf robinson 3b for 97 fisher and chasmar played well and hugh pitched a good game for pennington baker and bobinson played the best game while all of them seemed to have base-stealing down to a science score by innings : the team arrived in bethlehem at 11:30 p m much pleased with the game and also with the hospi table entertainment at pennington calendar tuesday may 1 — lecture ham let by dr coppee 11.30 a m physical laboratory junior class meeting 12.30 p m physical laboratory wednesday may 2 — baseball le high vs princeton at prince ton 3.30 p m sophomore and freshmen class meetings 12.30 p m thursday may 3 — electrical en gineering society 7.30 p m physical laboratory friday may 4 — classical club 2 p m dr hyde's office chess club 7.30 p m christmas hall saturday may 5 — baseball lehigh vs lafayette at easton 3.30 p m sunday may 6 — christian • as sociation meeting 6.30 p m christmas hall 95 vs 96 saturday afternoon the junior and sophomore classes played an interesting game of ball at the athletic grounds up to the seventh inning the score was close and the game exciting but at this point 96 did some heavy hitting winning the game easily for the sopho mores beeler taylor and given plajjed best while barber craw ford whitmoyer and castleman did good work for the juniors the features of the game were the work of beeler at left field lackey's catch of a liner between first and second and brown's catch of a difficult foul which fell halfway up the bank gabrio 95 umpired the score was as follows : innings struck out — by given 6 by casileman 5 passed bulls brown 5 buckman 2 base on balls 96 6 95 95 2 n~ood if jvise 2b felly lb jarkin at tfulyey 3b tlilligan c tforan rf sweeney ss l'reat p onoghue p 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 2 . 1 0 0 2 5 11 1 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 totals bray of j eck rf smith 2b s etriken lb ylcotmg c dhompson 8b jmiey if fackson p bowie p beggs ss a 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 n 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 6 10 3 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 4 1 1 0 3 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 totals 2 6 27 17 6 1 2 3 ilentowa iehigh 8 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0-9 o—2 reshmen ennington . . 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 2 o—4 o—s a.b k lackey 2b 5 1 liannan ss 5 1 ivhitrnoyer rf 5 1 p 5 1 brown c 5 1 collier cf 5 1 miller 3b 5 1 drawford if 4 1 sarber lb 4 0 11 t.b p.o a 1115 0 0 0 0 12 3 0 22 3 7 12 7 0 12 10 110 0 22 2 0 33 7 0 e 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 totals 43 8 11 15 24 12 7 iuckrnan c riven p aimer 1b tfussey 2b jrarron 3b ilac bride rf seeled if aylor ss lall cf a.b k h t.b po a 530 0 8 0 5 2 12 19 5 2 113 0 5 11110 5 2 1 1 5 1 5 13 4 10 520 0 5 0 503 5 0 2 4 0 1 13 0 e 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 totals 44 13 11 15 27 12 3 95 0 0 0 98 1 1 2 8 0 1 1 1 0 1 5 0 2—b 3 x l 3